Bad sectors remain after drive copy

vagabond

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12th Sep 2003

Hi all

My hard drive was developing bad sectors so I (using PQ Drive Image 5) copied it to an identical new drive. The original drive had 304KB marked as bas sectors - this had been increasing at the rate of 20KB per day.

The copy was painless but when I ran chkdsk on the new drive it still reports 304KB in bad sectors.

I'm guessing that XP is keeping a record of these and it hasn't reset the total. (I thought that it was the drive itself that was responsible.)

How can I force XP to reset the total?

Thanks

John

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